Workplace-related learning is a difficult concept that is handled in political practise in various ways and with many blind spots. The struggle of the current ET 2020 Working Group on Adult Learning for clarity in regard to terms shows: Education is almost always relevant for work, the workplace and the labour market.

The fourth Promoting Adult Skills (PAS) event was organised on 25 May at the Novo mesto Adult Education Centre, and addressed the always popular field of social and civic competences. We used the attitude towards the Roma people and immigrants as the basis for the discussion on the significance of prejudice, constructive understanding, tolerance, expression and understanding of different views and compassion.

What is the difference between a MOOC, a COOC and a SPOC? And who are those online courses meant for? MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. The importance of this course is that it is open to a lot of people at the same time. COOC stands for Corporate Open Online Course and is designed for companies. And SPOC stands for Small Private Open Course. Contrary to MOOC and COOC, the aim of a SPOC is to address a small group of people and offer them a tailor made course.

The third Promoting Adult Skills (PAS) event, which was organised on 24 May by the Kranj Adult Education Centre at its Intergenerational Centre has confirmed in many ways what has already been said at the event on the long-term unemployed in Celje and the event on youth in Slovenska Bistrica.

On the 26 September EPALE is celebrating European Day of Languages. We love languages at EPALE – learning new languages can help share information and experiences across borders, broaden our cultural horizons and improve cognitive function.

We already described the first Promoting Adult Skills (PAS) event, dedicated to the development of key competencies for improved employability of the long-term unemployed, here. However, this time we will focus on the event for (and with) the youth – fundamental abilities, which they would require in the labour market and life in general, as well as related topics (housing, volunteering, etc).

Galway Technical Institute first received funding for student mobility under the Leonardo da Vinci programme in 2009. In that year, almost €24K was used to fund six participants. The following year, this number had increased to 47 and a year later had doubled to 100. In 2014, GTI received a two-year Erasmus+ Key Action 1 grant of €534K, which will fund close to 200 student placements. Earlier this year students took part in two-, three- or four-week placements all across Europe.